Hogwarts Summoning Guide

Cho Chang and the Ravenclaw students sobbed softly as they sadly collected Mariette's body. In truth, they all knew that many of their missing classmates had probably met a tragic end, but they never imagined that there was something even more terrifying than death—becoming one of those indescribable, horrifying monsters. The shock of witnessing this firsthand was far more profound than any speculation they might have had about their missing classmates.

Bai Lin originally planned to storm the basement with Yan Nishuang, but the students, filled with grief and indignation, all wanted to join him in defeating the evil Umbridge. Bai Lin intended to refuse outright, since with his current strength, these little guys would only be a burden and a liability. However, Yan Nishuang readily agreed and selected several students to form an assault team.

Yan Nishuang has excellent taste. In addition to the main trio, she also picked the twins, Eddie, Luna, and Neville, who is already quite strong. Bai Lin even suspects that she has read the Harry Potter novels.

Bringing Harry along is essential; he is the chosen one of this world. As long as he is within the boundaries of Hogwarts, all "events" will naturally be connected to him, and some even require him to "trigger" them. The current timeline is different from the Harry Potter novels that Bai Lin has read. He can no longer know in advance what will happen in the future, but as long as he is by Harry's side, he will surely be able to obtain the most information.

Yan Nishuang brought eight people with her. Bai Lin looked at her eyes, which seemed to have some deeper meaning, but he didn't want to say it outright, so he nodded. The group carefully slipped out of the House of Requirement through the door of the giant monster portrait.

"Umbridge destroyed the Marauder's Map..." Fred muttered sadly as he leaned closer. "But I can find the way to the secret basement!" When Bai Lin left Hogwarts, he returned the Marauder's Map to the twins, but Umbridge had already discovered it.

Bai Lin nodded to him. In the original story, when these two gave Harry the Marauder's Map, they said that they had memorized all the secret passages in the castle and were familiar with some places that might be secret passages, which was to be expected.

Although Bai Lin had seen the Marauder's Map, he naturally focused on the parts related to the original plot because he understood the story, and did not study the nooks and crannies in detail. Thinking back on it, he realized that he really knew very little about Hogwarts Castle. It seemed that the castle was hiding a huge space, which had now become the lair of Umbridge, or rather, the "Universal League".

The castle was filled with guards dressed in black. Judging from their appearance, they were not British, but mercenaries from North Africa. Bai Lin guessed that they were a private army secretly trained by Umbridge. With the help of the Hastur Church, she could easily control a group of outlaws.

However, these desperate criminals were nothing more than live targets to be sold in front of Bai Lin. Before they even saw Bai Lin's shadow, they were frozen into statues by the chaotic icy rain that flew from afar.

"It's right here!" George said, pointing to the path leading to the Hufflepuff dormitory.

"Dobby!" Harry and Hermione didn't go in the direction George pointed, but rushed into the kitchen next door. However, the kitchen was already a mess, and all the house-elves were gone.

Bai Lin had walked this path countless times. The old blacksmith Addison's portrait had always hung on the wall, and he had never noticed the secret passage leading to other places. Seeing the twins fumbling around on the wall, he realized there really was a huge black hole in the wall between the two portraits, and he could vaguely see a two-meter-wide staircase leading down into the darkness. Bai Lin couldn't help but cough awkwardly.

"I'll go first! You guys follow closely." Bai Lin took the lead and plunged into the black hole, with Yan Nishuang close behind. The two of them were the strongest, and the others did not overestimate themselves and try to take it from them.

The steps led alone to the depths of the earth, with bottomless abysses on both sides. Harry and the others lit up their magical lamps, which seemed to give them courage.

After walking for more than ten minutes, Bai Lin felt that he had descended at least two hundred meters underground. All around him were empty abysses. He realized that this was not the physical underground of Hogwarts, but an independent magical space.

Finally, they saw what was below—atop the crimson lava, a small floating island hung, and at the end of the steps was the top of the floating island, where an ancient stone door stood in the center.

Warning: Entering the realm of the ancient gods. Current SAN value: 100.

Host's current soul strength: 25, insane erosion 98...

The system issued a warning as soon as Bai Lin stepped onto the ground of the floating island. However, without his knowledge, Bai Lin's soul strength had increased to 25 points, which was equivalent to 25 times that of an ordinary human. The influence of the Ancient God Domain on him was negligible, but he was still very uncomfortable.

"I need a soul connection!" Bai Lin thought to himself, and then Sifu Jiaer emerged and created a small network between the souls of the ten people. This way, everyone could rely on Bai Lin's soul resistance ability to greatly slow down the loss of SAN value.

Time was of the essence, so Bai Lin pushed open the stone door without saying a word, and a magnificent hall appeared before everyone.

This place seemed to be the dwelling place of giants who were twenty or thirty meters tall. Everything was terrifyingly large. The hall was as high as sixty or seventy meters and was filled with braziers of various shapes. Bai Lin looked closely and realized that those "chandeliers" were the remains of some huge creatures, which seemed to be the spoils of the hall's owner.

"This is definitely not the place created by the four founders of Hogwarts..." Bai Lin couldn't help but say amidst the exclamations of the crowd.

"I know!" Hermione exclaimed, clapping her hands. "Legend has it that Rowena Ravenclaw dreamt of a warthog that jumped onto the cliff where Hogwarts is located, and that's why the four founders decided to build the school here! So it must be that the gods guided Rowena; this was never just an ordinary cliff, but a divine relic!"

Bai Lin was once again impressed by Hermione, never expecting that she could analyze things so quickly using only some knowledge from books circulating in the mortal world.

"Be careful..." Bai Lin whispered. Yan Nishuang waved her hand without saying a word, and an ancient, sheathed sword instantly appeared in her left hand, proving that she also realized that the current situation could not be handled by the jade pen and talisman magic, and directly took out the Moye sword.

Before they had walked more than a few dozen meters, the floor in front of them was covered with a layer of red and black substance, with faint dark veins visible, as if it were covered with the flesh and blood of some kind of creature.

"Ah!" Everyone walked around a huge stone artifact. Although Bai Lin had already signaled to keep their voices down, the row of glass jars in front of them still startled them.